According to UN estimates, between 500, 000 and 1. 2 million children died during the years of the sanctions.

" The UN estimates that 300, 000 civilians in the Darfur region have been killed.

World population from 500CE to 2150, based on UN 2004 projections ( red, orange, green ) and US Census Bureau historical estimates ( black ).

* The world will need at least 50 percent more food, 45 percent more energy and 30 percent more water, according to UN estimates.

UN estimates 2000 – 2006.

UN sources for the period, based on the documentation at General Bennike's disposal ( prepared by Commander E H Hutchison USNR ), lower both estimates

UN estimates 2000-2007.

However, the U. S. figures were very different from preliminary estimates in September 2003 by the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime in Colombia, which indicated that output in Peru and Bolivia may have risen by as much 21 %, or 150 km², so far this year.

The UN estimates that in 2005, approximately 45, 000 women were raped in South Kivu.

The UN estimates that more than half of the languages spoken today have fewer than 10, 000 speakers and that a quarter have fewer than 1, 000 speakers and that, unless there are some efforts to maintain them, over the next hundred years most of these will become extinct.

Another potential crisis is the advent of AIDS, which by UN estimates, could reach 10 million cases in 2010.

Amir Attaran, an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Law, Population Health, and Global Development Policy at University of Ottawa, argues that goals related to maternal mortality, malaria, and tuberculosis are in practice impossible to measure and that current UN estimates do not have scientific validity or are missing.

In Bangladesh, the UN Children's Fund ( UNICEF ) estimated in 2004 that there were 10, 000 underage girls used in commercial sexual exploitation in the country, but other estimates placed the figure as high as 29, 000.

The UN refugee agency ( UNHCR ) estimates that there are approximately three million stateless persons in the world.

According to UN estimates, a further million people died during the trade embargo ( imposed by the UN following Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait ), due to malnutrition or lack of medical supplies, and from sanctions targeting domestic water systems ( History of Iraq ).

According to the country's National Disaster Relief Coordination Agency, 126, 915 people are dead and 37, 063 are missing In addition, the UN estimates that 655, 000 people are homeless and sheltering in scattered refugee camps across the province.

Both Rwandan government and UN officials minimized the numbers killed, giving public estimates of 330 and 2000 killed respectively.

The UN Development Program estimates that 50-80 % of actions required to take limit global temperature rises to two degrees will need to arise from sub-national levels of government.

The CIA World Factbook estimates that in 2000 the adult literacy rate was 84 percent for males and 64 percent for females, with UN figures suggesting a small fall in literacy of Iraqis aged 15 – 24 between 2000 and 2008, from 84. 8 % to 82. 4 %.

Rice is the principal crop in River Gee, accounting for approximately 60 % of the county's production according to UN estimates.

The estimates for components of US gross output in UNSNA and NIPA differ somewhat, because NIPA accounts do not fully conform to the UN standard.

; Attacks on UN Staff workers: Section 1 ( 2 )( a ) of the United Nations Personnel Act 1997 ( c. 13 ) makes provision for assault causing injury, and section 1 ( 2 )( b ) makes provision for assault occasioning actual bodily harm, on UN staff.

A nation with a population of less than one million, it maintains nearly 1, 000 soldiers overseas in UN peacekeeping missions, mainly in the Middle East.

The aid package falls under the EU ’ s € 1 billion Food Facility, set up with the UN Secretary-General ’ s High-Level Task Force on the Global Food Crisis and FAO to focus on programmes that will have a quick but lasting impact on food security.

On April 1, 2010, soldiers entered UN offices and left with Bubo Na Tchuto.

On 21 November 1949 the UN General Assembly passed a resolution stating that Libya should become independent before 1 January 1952.

The preamble of the charter provides that the members " reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the equal rights of men and women " and Article 1 ( 3 ) of the United Nations charter states that one of the purposes of the UN is: " to achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion ".

In the hearings before the Ad Hoc Political Committee that considered Israel's application for membership in the United Nations, Abba Eban said that the rights stipulated in section C. Declaration, chapters 1 and 2 of UN resolution 181 ( II ) had been alluded to in the fundamental law of the state of Israel as proposed by the resolution.

World population is still growing, and UN projections show that global population will continue to grow, from close to 7 billion currently to 10. 1 billion in 2100.

Accoding to the 2010 Revision of the UN World Population Prospects, the population of Laos increased from 1. 7 million in 1950 to 6. 2 million in 2010.

Several foreign embassies and UN offices were badly damaged by vandals on 1 May 2011, drawing condemnation from the United Kingdom and Italy.

Malta is member of C, CE, EBRD, ECE, EU ( member from 1 May 2004 ), FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICFTU, ICRM, IFAD, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, IOM ( observer ), ISO, ITU, OPCW, OSCE, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO

The UN estimated in 2006 that there were only. 3 internet users per 100 Nigeriens, but this had risen from less than. 1 per 100 in 2000.

Note: the Compact of Free Association with the U. S., entered into after the end of the UN trusteeship on 1 October 1994, provides Palau with up to $ 700 million in U. S. aid over 15 years in return for furnishing military facilities.

Article 1 of the 1945 UN Charter includes " promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race " as UN purpose.

On January 1, 2007, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon assumed the post of UN Secretary-General.

The UN Environmental Programme warned that eating livestock that grazed within an area of 7, 000 square kilometers of the fires, or 1, 100 kilometers from the center of the fires, an area that included northern Saudi Arabia, posed a danger to human health.

* 1983 – The USSR vetoes a UN Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.

* Chapter 1, Article 1, part 2 states that purpose of the UN Charter is: " To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace.

It happens in the territory of the Leopoldville government, which is itself a fiction, demonstrably incapable of governing, and commanding only such limited credit abroad as UN support gives it.

Right now, they are pushing a resolution which would have UN use its forces to invade and subjugate Katanga.

The UN army is too weak, too demoralized for the task.

Otherwise, UN will march blindly on to certain defeat.

On October 19, after the Soviets had detonated at least 20 nuclear devices, Ambassador Stevenson warned the UN General Assembly that this country, in `` self protection '', might have to resume above-ground tests.

We can vote in the UN against South African apartheid or Portuguese rule in Angola, but we cannot even introduce a motion on the Berlin Wall -- much less, give the simple order to push the Wall down.

If the UN troops are not mercenaries then the Hessians were not mercenaries either.

There should even be no more bitter surprises in the UN General Assembly as to NATO members' votes, since a new ad hoc NATO committee has been set up so that in the future such topics as Angola will be discussed in advance.

In 1993, the UN Security Council adopted four resolutions calling for the cessation of hostilities, unimpeded access for international humanitarian relief efforts, and the eventual deployment of a peacekeeping force in the region.

* 1960 – Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.

A report by Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, notes that " millions of farmers are losing their livelihoods in the developing countries, but small farmers in the northern countries are also suffering " and concludes that " the current inequities of the global trading system are being perpetuated rather than resolved under the WTO, given the unequal balance of power between member countries.

A new conference centre capable of hosting thousands of participants is currently under construction in the immediate vicinity of the UN Campus.

The resolution placed Kosovo under UN administration and authorized a peacekeeping force.

Both republics and the Soviet Union joined the UN when the organization was founded in 1945.

Malaysia sent UN Peacekeeping troops to the former Yugoslavia.

Pakistan sent in UN Peacekeeping forces to the former Yugoslavia during the Yugoslav wars.

Botswana, like many nations in southern Africa, suffers from a high AIDS infection rates, estimated in a 2002 UN report to be 38. 8 % for adults.

In 1994 Brazilian troops joined United Nations ( UN ) peacekeeping forces in five countries.